February 2012
62 posts
Paris Vogue editor Emmanuelle Alt as George... →
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It’s safe to say, you wouldn’t catch Anna Wintour bopping about in Eighties attire to Wham! classic Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, or any other song come to that.
But, Vogue Paris editor Emmanuelle Alt is a very different sort of Vogue editor - and one who can clearly laugh at herself.”
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A Note On Practice And Persistence
Very, very wise words from Zed A. Shaw, author of Learn Python The Hard Way:
While you are studying programming, I’m studying how to play guitar. I practice it every day for at least 2 hours a day. I play scales, chords, and arpeggios for an hour at least and then learn music theory, ear training, songs and anything else I can. Some days I study guitar and music for 8 hours because I...
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“Reading is a miracle of communication in the midst of solitude.”
– Marcel Proust
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Eugenides on ruins, decay, loss & impermanence.
My entire childhood coincided with the demise of Detroit. I grew up watching houses and buildings fall apart and then -disappear. It imbued my sense of the world with a strong elegiac quality—a direct experience of the fragility and evanescence of the material world. That was what I was really writing about. I had imagined a family of suicidal sisters, five brief lives, and I’d put them in an...
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WatchPOW WOW HAWAII 2012
A whole round of community art and fun.
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““On the fourth day, God created stars, to divide the light from the...”
– Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe” : The New Yorker
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“your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the...”
– Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”
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